Maintaining the ability to remote desktop after I move.

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 03:42:50 -0700

I checked out dyndns.org but I do not know which option
you were speaking of. Can you please help me through
this. The services include:

Custom DNS
Secondary DNS
Dynamic DNS
Static DNS
Domain Registration
Domain Transfers

I believe it is dynamiic DNS:
Dynamic DNS service points a fixed hostname in one of our
domains to your ISP-assigned dynamic IP address, allowing
your computer to be accessed from various locations on
the Internet without knowing your current IP.

Please check out the site and let me know.
>-----Original Message-----
>if your router is using a dynamicIP then register it
with
>dyndns.org (or some other similar free service). This
>allows you to connect to the router by name instead of
>having to know the IP (eg: home.dyndns.net).This will
>allow you to vnc into the router. In order to get on to
>one of the pc's behind it, you will need to use port
>forwarding (in the advanced section of the linksys). By
>default, vnc uses port 5900, but check your settings
just
>in case. Unfortunately, you can only port forward to one
>pc, so pick the one you are most likely to need access
>to. If you need to access the other, you will have to
log
>on to the linksys remotely (check remote management is
>enabled) and change the ip that the port is forwarded
to.
>It's not necessarily the most elegant or efficient way
to
>do it, but it does work. (just check you don't have any
>firewalls in the way that may block the vnc request)
>
>HTH
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am moving out of my parents house soon but I need to
>>find a way to remain connected to their computers
>through
>>our network so that I can fix things when they are
>>running into problems.
>>
>>Right now we all use Windows XP Home and are part of
the
>>same Workgroup. I am able to use something called Real
>>VNC in order to Remotely connect to their computers and
>>take over their desktops when they need my help.
>>
>>Since I am moving out, I would like to be able to
retain
>>this ability to help them but I don't know how to go
>>about it. First of all, Real VNC allows you to connect
>>to any PC on the internet as long as you have that
>>computers IP address and they have VNC Server installed
>>on their PC. The only thing is that the computers at
>>home run on cable modem through a Linksys router. In
>>other words, the router is acting as DHCP server. So
>>that standard 192.168.1.101 and 192.168.1.102 IPs only
>>work locally, but won't work outside the home network.
>>To make matters worse, the router is picking up it's IP
>>from a remote DHCP server; in other words, I have no
>idea
>>what IP address it is using because ipconfig /all only
>>shows the IP addy that is administered to each PC by
the
>>router.
>>
>>The only thing I could think of is when I move out of
>the
>>house, have my computer become a member of their
>>workgroup. But is that even possible form a remote
>>location? Or do you have to be connected to the same
>>router in order to do that? If that's possible then I
>>wouldn't even need IPs... I could just use computer
>names.
>>
>>Either way, can someone please suggest a solution to
>this
>>please. Thank you very much.
>>.
>>
>.
>

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